...and A Month of VERTIGO is about to begin...
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Arriving with 2012 will be this blog’s first major event, A Month of VERTIGO. The month will feature 10 11 bloggers and one ‘vlogger' reflecting on facets of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958).Unpopular with critics and audiences when it was released, Vertigo has endured. Today it is generally considered the great...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
The Lady Eve offers a blogful of holiday cheer this year. Here's what's under the tree... ~ Two Icons Singing: Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra sing "White Christmas" on a December 1957 TV special... ~ A Festive Romp From the 1970s: Kenneth More and Albert Finney sing "I Like Life" in the 1970 film Scrooge...~ From...
Sunday, December 18, 2011
The weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful...which means it's a perfect time to snuggle down into a favorite chair, remote in hand, and decide: DVR or DVD?With Christmas just a week away I've picked a few long-time holiday favorites to watch along with one or two that have come into...
Monday, December 12, 2011
Not long ago I sat down with the 1956 British translation of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's D'Entre Les Morts (1954). The book is now published under the title Vertigo (it was originally called 'The Living and the Dead') owing to the legend that is the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film based on Boileau/Narcejac's...
Monday, December 5, 2011
It is only occasionally that a film ages with extraordinary grace. Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 classic,The Shop Around the Corner, has mellowed in the manner of a rare and prized bottle of Hungarian Tokaji Aszú... Balta Street, BudapestDirector Lubitsch, revered for sophisticated films spun with his light-as-air...
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